Comment on Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all. Valve won’t be sunsetting the battery yet.

• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, but whan if I want a second-party battery

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would be directly from the supplier I guess?

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    • Sasquatch@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve always assumed 2nd party is just when the 1st party sells you a 3rd party’s goods/services.

      Kinda like subcontracted?

      I used to get my old Oneplus phones repairs scheduled through the Oneplus website, but I was just given a shipping label for a different company in texas. I consider that 2nd party🤷‍♂️

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        From my understanding, the first and second parties are the seller (Valve) and the buyer (you). They are the two who have a contract between them. A third party, then, is any party which isn’t signed on the contract. That is, an outsider to the contract.

        Any other meaning of second party is probably a back-formation from a misunderstanding of the terms 1st and 3rd party.

        Disclaimer: I literally have no idea what I’m talking about

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      • ericwdhs@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As far as I understand it, there’s no actual “official” definition. Second-party can mean both:

        From the main supplier but retaining a different supplier’s branding (as opposed to rebranding, which makes it first-party again even if the manufacturer doesn’t change).

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        The buyer, analogous to the second-person point of view (“you”), so in that context, a second-party battery would be one you build yourself.

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